Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge
- Written by Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
DANIEL CONSTANTE.ShutterstockBig tech companies would have to either do deals with news organisations to help fund journalism or pay a charge to the Australian government, under a new plan announced by the Albanese government on Thursday.
The new plan follows the Morrison government-era system introduced in 2021 known as the news media bargaining...





